Shift API

Transfer money immediately by generating Visa cards.

curl https://api.shiftpayments.com/cardholders \
  -u pk_test_72bf76fa137a7a4f64e6de197e306b96: \
  -d "design_key=your-brand" \
  -d "first_name=Taylor" \
  -d "last_name=Shift" \
  -d "email=taylor.shift@example.com" \
  -d "phone_number=+12025550160" \
  -d "date_of_birth=1992-06-20" \
  -d "address[street_one]=555 50th St." \
  -d "address[locality]=San Francisco" \
  -d "address[region]=CA" \
  -d "address[postal_code]=95159" \
  -d "address[country]=USA" \
  -d "document[type]=SSN" \
  -d "document[value]=123450000"

API Documentation

Immediate

Pay suppliers and customers instantly with a card. No need for checks or ACH.

More Data

Expand your purview to encompass the full range of customer spending behavior.

Brand Extension

Increase brand stickiness with your product mark inside physical and digital wallets.

We are devoted to compliance.

Our industry-proven customer due diligence and identification program is used by companies big and small. Practical and creative legal solutions to a variety of complex regulatory, compliance and commercial challenges allowed Shift to create the first bitcoin debit card in partnership with Visa and Coinbase.

Merchant Acceptance.

Shift enables your suppliers and customers to spend at over 38 million merchants worldwide. Visa cards generated by Shift, both physical and digital, provide full access to the best known payment network in the world.